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Month: December 2018

UniCarriers focus on health and safety at LogiMAT 2019

UniCarriers focus on health and safety at LogiMAT 2019

Manufacturer
UniCarriers is focusing on health and safety at LogiMAT 2019, with particular attention on the forklift driver. In Hall 10 at Stand D61, the Mitsubishi-owned industrial truck maker will present its ergonomic equipment and its concepts for driver health and safety from the UniCarriers 360° service package. The booth will also feature innovations in the product portfolio, such as lithium-ion battery technology. In the logistics industry, employees are the most important asset, says the company. With ever more complex requirements in warehousing, the demand for well-trained and reliable personnel is rising – reason enough for UniCarriers to focus on the driver at the LogiMAT 2019 intralogistics trade fair. The driver represents about 70 percent of the total life cycle costs, in shift opera...
Impact sees demand soar for Konecranes ’Super’ lift trucks

Impact sees demand soar for Konecranes ’Super’ lift trucks

Dealer
Impact handling, the exclusive UK distributor for Konecranes Lift Trucks, has seen a recent surge in demand for its largest 60 tonne machines. The purpose-built heavy duty Konecranes forklifts, capable of handling the largest and most demanding of loads, have helped enable ambitious projects across the construction and industrial sectors. Impact worked closely with their customers and the Konecranes factory team to carefully design the customised machines to perfectly fit their intended applications. A comprehensive delivery and training support programme ensured the machines were efficiently integrated into their new environments, whilst further peace of mind was provided by Impact’s extensive and readily available UK parts supply. Terry Kendrew, Managing Director at Impact Handl...
Clark to Showcase Process Optimisation and Cost Reduction at LogiMAT

Clark to Showcase Process Optimisation and Cost Reduction at LogiMAT

Euronews, Manufacturer
Veteran forklift maker Clark Europe says it will use February’s LogiMAT opportunity to present new products for process optimisation and cost-reduction of in-company logistics processes. They will be in hall 9, booth B61. Among the highlights of the Clark trade fair appearance are the S-Series internal combustion engine trucks launched in early 2018. These have been improved by new Ford engines of emission level 5 and a new DBS system. With the aid of the DBS system, the forklift steering axle is stabilized in such a way that when cornering tipping danger is reduced and driving behaviour is improved. This increases not only the safety of the forklift truck but also the throughput. DBS is now available as standard on all models of the S-Series. With the S-Series with load capacities of 2...
JCB Teletruk Joins the Fire Service

JCB Teletruk Joins the Fire Service

Manufacturer, Trending
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has added a JCB Teletruk to its range of front-line firefighting and emergency rescue equipment. The Teletruk is deployed at waste and rural fires where it is used to move bailed and bulky items to support improved firefighting tactics, reduce the risk of fire spread, improve firefighter and public safety and limit the potential for environmental impact during the firefighting process. It will also be utilized at fire scenes during the clean-up and ‘dampening down’ phase of an operation, where there is a need to disturb smouldering debris to allow fire crews to direct water at deep seated fires to ensure that a blaze is fully extinguished in the fastest possible time. The Teletruk is transported to the scene of an emergency using a transport m...
A New Award for Andover Fork Truck Services

A New Award for Andover Fork Truck Services

Dealer
Andover Fork Truck Services is pioneering higher standards and was given the Certificate of Compliance by the UK’s foremost authority on materials handling, the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA). The award-winning dealership underwent a 100-point on-site audit, created to ensure consistently high standards and compliance across all areas of the business operations, including health, safety, environmental and risk management. Accepting the certification at the company’s North Way site, director Lee Clapcott said: “We welcomed the FLTA audit as an opportunity to review our operations, we were really pleased to be leading the way by being among the first to complete the audit. “It presented us with a welcome opportunity to stand back, take stock and work even more effectively on ...
Blackmores Machinery Haulage Turns to Andover Trailers for Heavy-Duty Forklift Carrier

Blackmores Machinery Haulage Turns to Andover Trailers for Heavy-Duty Forklift Carrier

General, Logistics
Somerset-based Blackmores Machinery Haulage has taken delivery of a new bespoke-built forklift trailer from Andover Trailers – its first from the Hampshire manufacturer. The new 36-tonne tri-axle step frame curtainsider is a new addition to Blackmores Machinery Haulage’s fleet, with the company taking advantage of Andover Trailers’ custom approach to ensure it can accommodate its 16-tonne Versalift and 27-tonne Hoist heavy-duty forklifts. Wayne Scott, Operations Manager at Blackmores Machinery Haulage, says: “We have to carry some pretty sizeable forklifts over long distances, and we knew a standard ‘off-the-shelf’ trailer wasn’t going to be suitable. “The team at Andover were able to tailor the specification to suit our needs precisely. We’ve been thoroughly impressed with both t...
Triathlon to sponsor Fork Lift Truck Awards

Triathlon to sponsor Fork Lift Truck Awards

Batteries, FLTA, Industry
Triathlon Battery Solutions has been confirmed as a sponsor of the Fork Lift Truck Association’s Awards for Excellence. A new face at the Awards, Triathlon have come on board for the event’s 25th anniversary, marking a quarter century of celebrating achievement in the materials handling industry. Over the decades the Archie has become a recognised symbol of excellence — the forklift world’s equivalent of an Oscar win. Peter Harvey, FLTA chief executive said “2019 is going to be a special year for the Awards so we’re looking to make this event the absolute best we’ve put on. “The Archies are very much a cornerstone of the materials handling calendar and we love being able to commend the very best in the industry for all their fantastic work over the past 12 months. “But if we...
8 New JCB Teletruks for The Camden Group

8 New JCB Teletruks for The Camden Group

Dealer
Leading manufacturer of uPVC window frames and doors, the Camden Group has taken delivery of a fleet of eight new JCB Teletruk forklift trucks. The trucks will operate across Camden’s three sites in Ireland at Antrim, Limerick and Dublin and will undertake a variety of duties – from transporting waste glass around Camden’s recycling plant to loading trailers with finished products that leave Camden’s production facility. The introduction of Teletruk technology has allowed Camden to improve site safety and make better use of the outside yard space available at its production site. Paul Murray, JCB’s Teletruk General Manager, says: “Loading cages and A-frames containing windows and doors on to a typical trailer with counterbalanced forklift trucks had meant that Camden required cons...
Doosan Forklifts on show at LAMMA19

Doosan Forklifts on show at LAMMA19

Manufacturer
Doosan, the leading manufacturer of robust high-performance forklift trucks, will be exhibiting at LAMMA 19 (hall 18, stand 516), the UK’s top farm machinery, equipment and services show, to be held at the NEC in Birmingham, 8th- 9th January 2019. On the stand will be four of Doosan’s latest feature-rich forklift trucks – a D30S 3 tonne counterbalance, a B15T-7 three-wheel electric counterbalance, a 2.5 tonne capacity hand pallet truck and a D35C-7 3.5 tonne diesel counterbalance truck. These are just representative examples of the manufacturer’s extensive range of over 200 models of counterbalance, reach and warehouse trucks, with capacities spanning 1.3 to 25 tonnes, over power sources of electric, gas and diesel. Everything the agricultural sector needs in terms of handling performan...
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